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WYOMING-[DELAWARE Letters Patent No, 104,559, dcted Jun-e21, 1870;

FRUIT-DRIER.

To, all whom it may concern:

JBejit known that I, DR. NEWTON 6.00%, of Wyoming, in thecounty-of Kentand'State of Delaware, have invented anew and usefullmprovement in Fruit-Driers; and I do hereby declare that the 1'01- 7 lowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in whicha Figure 1 is a sectionalelevation, and Figure2 is a transverse horizontal section; flhis invent-ion consists in a fruit drying case, provided with partitions that divide it into separate chamhers, which communicate at one end With a hot-air fl ue, and at the other endwith an escape passage, leading to a. chimney, and which are furnished with screens for'holding fruit, malt, hops, or otherarticle tobe dried in the current of hot air that sweeps through the chambers, the moisture drawn from the fruit in each chamber being. carried 'ofi' therefrom di- "rectly to the chimney without risinglthrough the other chambers and-damagingthe fruit therein.

In the drawing- Ais the case or house. v

a, the vertical hot-airflue-atone end of thecase. b', t he vertical escape-passage at" the other end of thecase. 'I, f

c, the partitions, occupying thewhole width of the case, extending from the flue ,a to the passage 7), and

dividing the case into chambers,

(Z are valves, two at each end flihef schedule' referred to'in these Letters Patent and m 1 partitions o,

p of each chamber, and a used for letting in hot airand letting out moisture.

5g of the same e are'iedges, at the ends of the-chambers and be tween the'valves, for the support otthe screens 7!, on

which the article to be dried is placed, the screens be- I ing removable like drawers, and being provided with plates at their outer sides, which close the case when the screens are shoved in.

'i areswiveling'hooks in the front of the ease, by which the screens may tie-fastened in.

As the valves d are arranged, hot air can belet in either beneath'vgthehcreens or above them, or both, and the moisture may be removed in like manner.

Hot air may also be shut off from either chamber,

as is expedient when the same is empty.

The chambers being each entirely separate from the rest, no moisture can find its way into those above it to the damage of the fruit therein, which isan objection to many driers now in use.

Having thus described my invention, What I clai nhas new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-- The combination of the case A, hot-air fines a b, Ives dfplaced both above and below eachpartition,vledges e, and. sliding.screen's 7:, all constructed and arranged to operate as described. i

To the above specification of my invention I have set my handthis 4th day of May, 1870.

- "D11. NEWTON O. QQOLEY.

Witnesses: SoLoN-G. KEMO1-I,.

CHAS. JI A. Pn'r'ri'r. 

